Following his selection in the third round at No. 87 overall, Pittsburgh Steelers center Kendrick Green’s rookie season was anything but smooth.
After making the transition full-time from guard in college to center — a position he played sparingly at Illinois — Green went through a number of growing pains and hard lessons learned on the gridiron at the heart of a rebuilt Steelers’ offensive line that struggled mightily overall in Ben Roethlisberger’s final season in Pittsburgh.
Now, in the height of an important offseason for the second-year center, Green — speaking with the Illini Inquirier as part of 247 Sports — reflected on the trying lessons and up-and-down play he experienced as a rookie in 2021, and how he plans on rebounding from a tough year overall.